Ridiculous lies Hollywood tells us about women – If you’ve ever watched any movie or television show, you’ve been shown a certain stereotype about how women supposedly behave in the real world. While the portrayal of women in film and TV is progressively getting better with more interesting roles and stronger characters, Hollywood is still a long way from depicting what real women are like in the real world.
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In fact, a producer in Hollywood runs a Twitter account with which he shares the very predictable descriptions of female characters when they are introduced in the film.
Not only is Hollywood unable to represent women in all their glory, but it also tends to rely on the same tried and true characteristics. In some cases, it may come to wardrobe choices made over and over again. In other cases, it’s about the irrationally beautiful women who are cast in every role. Remember when Marisa Tomei played the undesirable stripped in The Wrestler? Yeah, okay. Maybe, they should have actually cast someone who isn’t stunning if they wanted us to believe that no one wanted to see her strip. While those are two more superficial issues, Hollywood also has difficulty properly depicting how a woman acts during certain milestones in her life, like pregnancy and marriage.
Unfortunately, since Hollywood is an industry that is still primarily run by men, women end up being reduced to these stereotypes time and time again. While this isn’t an issue with the same gravity as healthcare or our economy, it’s important to point out the lies that Hollywood repeats time and time again about women because, newsflash: some of us are really just are at the wedding for the open bar, not to catch the bouquet.
11. We Walk Around In Heels All Day Long
Women in movies wear heels all the time – to dinner, to dates, to work, to the freaking gym. They’re just running around Manhattan (or fleeing from dinosaurs in the jungle) in heels, no biggie. Plenty of women hate wearing heels. In fact, plenty of women hate wearing heels so much that they just don’t. Ever. You can get away with wearing a fancy flat to work or on dates or even to a wedding if it’s fancy enough. Just because Hollywood seems to enjoy punishing the women’s feet, does not mean real women do.
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